Bill Maher: CPAC ‘open mic from hell’

Bill Maher said Friday that CPAC was like an “open-mic from hell,” featuring a line-up of out-of-touch politicians who aren’t reflective of where the country stands.

“Among the featured speakers at CPAC this year include Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Rick Santorum, [National Rifle Association CEO] Wayne LaPierre, Donald Trump and Sarah Palin, a virtual who’s-who of what the f—-? The convention is still going on so I won’t presume to know everything that’s going to be said at this open-mic from hell, but — oh screw it, yes I do know,” the liberal comic said on his HBO show “Real Time.” “I know exactly what’s going to be said because it’s exactly what they always say.”

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Many from the GOP are gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering where prominent Republicans speak. Maher said that he knows exactly what will be said.

“They will get up one after another and say that they speak for the vast majority of real Americans who hate socialism and own guns and feel their values are under attack — except they don’t speak for a vast majority of Americans, or a majority at all. They’re just so loud that they haven’t noticed that America has moved on without them,” Maher said.

He then jabbed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

“They’re like a nasty old man still b—-ing about the kids who keep hitting the ball into his yard, even though those kids have grown up and moved away — and he’s still the senior senator from Arizona,” Maher said.